Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 67 86
Rank change year-on-year -26 +19 -31
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,046 1,873 2,406
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.96% 3.78% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 4.22% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,436 918 1,647
10th Percentile £45,999 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,563 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £94,694 £85,420
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +10.24% -5.93%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,763 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.58% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,880 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 5 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -25 1,790 £75,000 +3.45% 1,230
UK excluding London -35 1,112 £65,000 -7.14% 596
Work from Home -23 889 £65,000 -7.14% 639
London -12 794 £85,000 +3.03% 776
North of England -38 374 £70,000 - 176
South East +17 307 £65,000 -7.14% 153
North West -49 199 £75,000 +7.14% 102
South West -24 130 £57,500 -4.17% 71
Midlands -59 105 £67,500 +1.89% 67
North East +24 95 £65,000 +18.18% 27
Yorkshire -10 80 £62,500 -13.18% 47
West Midlands -38 77 £80,000 +14.29% 47
Northern Ireland -21 62 £60,000 +20.00% 54
Wales -11 58 £70,000 +34.62% 17
East of England -33 46 £60,100 -3.84% 18
Scotland -54 32 £60,000 -23.87% 45
East Midlands -55 27 £64,000 +6.67% 20
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 38 (1.86%) Confluence
2 26 (1.27%) Apache Spark
3 15 (0.73%) Apache
3 15 (0.73%) CMS
4 14 (0.68%) IIS
5 12 (0.59%) Camunda
6 9 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.39%) WordPress
8 7 (0.34%) JBoss
8 7 (0.34%) nginx
8 7 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.24%) Drupal
11 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.15%) DNN
12 3 (0.15%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.15%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.15%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 11 (0.54%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.49%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.29%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.098%) Shopify
6 1 (0.049%) Eikon
6 1 (0.049%) RMDS
6 1 (0.049%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,053 (51.47%) AWS
2 881 (43.06%) Azure
3 333 (16.28%) GCP
4 265 (12.95%) Serverless
5 249 (12.17%) GitHub
6 190 (9.29%) SaaS
7 177 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
8 137 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
9 121 (5.91%) Amazon S3
10 111 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
11 103 (5.03%) GitHub Copilot
12 102 (4.99%) AWS CloudFormation
13 92 (4.50%) Azure Service Bus
14 82 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
15 70 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
15 70 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
16 67 (3.27%) Amazon SQS
17 63 (3.08%) Azure AKS
18 51 (2.49%) PaaS
19 48 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.69%) Broadband
2 26 (1.27%) Network Security
3 15 (0.73%) MQTT
4 13 (0.64%) DMARC
5 12 (0.59%) DNS
6 8 (0.39%) Internet
6 8 (0.39%) VPN
7 7 (0.34%) AMQP
7 7 (0.34%) Firewall
7 7 (0.34%) HTTP
7 7 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.29%) DHCP
8 6 (0.29%) RFID
8 6 (0.29%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.20%) LTE
11 3 (0.15%) Modbus
11 3 (0.15%) NAS
11 3 (0.15%) SAN
12 1 (0.049%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 307 (15.00%) MongoDB
2 230 (11.24%) PostgreSQL
3 201 (9.82%) NoSQL
4 166 (8.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 158 (7.72%) Elasticsearch
6 124 (6.06%) MySQL
7 115 (5.62%) SQL Server
8 95 (4.64%) Relational Database
9 67 (3.27%) Redis
10 52 (2.54%) DynamoDB
11 50 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (1.42%) Big Data
13 19 (0.93%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.73%) BigQuery
15 13 (0.64%) Data Lake
15 13 (0.64%) Pinecone
16 12 (0.59%) Db2
16 12 (0.59%) DTS
17 10 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
18 8 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 263 (12.85%) Git
2 191 (9.34%) GitLab
3 163 (7.97%) Jenkins
4 64 (3.13%) JUnit
5 61 (2.98%) JIRA
6 59 (2.88%) TeamCity
7 46 (2.25%) Cucumber
8 39 (1.91%) Mockito
9 36 (1.76%) Cypress.io
10 33 (1.61%) Claude Code
11 31 (1.52%) Maven
12 24 (1.17%) Selenium
13 22 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 19 (0.93%) CircleCI
15 17 (0.83%) SonarQube
16 15 (0.73%) Spock
17 14 (0.68%) Postman
18 13 (0.64%) JMeter
18 13 (0.64%) REST Assured
19 12 (0.59%) Vite
General
1 508 (24.83%) Finance
2 390 (19.06%) Social Skills
3 211 (10.31%) Public Sector
4 182 (8.90%) Banking
5 141 (6.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 139 (6.79%) Law
7 130 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
8 120 (5.87%) Retail
9 78 (3.81%) Legal
10 62 (3.03%) Financial Institution
11 54 (2.64%) Marketing
12 46 (2.25%) Back Office
13 31 (1.52%) Aerospace
14 29 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (1.37%) Legal Technology
16 22 (1.08%) Games
17 21 (1.03%) Advertising
18 19 (0.93%) Front Office
19 17 (0.83%) Telecoms
20 14 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 761 (37.19%) Developer
2 493 (24.10%) Senior
3 373 (18.23%) Software Engineer
4 328 (16.03%) Lead
5 285 (13.93%) Architect
6 205 (10.02%) .NET Developer
7 180 (8.80%) Senior Developer
8 164 (8.02%) Full-Stack Developer
9 152 (7.43%) Java Developer
10 138 (6.74%) Java Engineer
11 126 (6.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 119 (5.82%) Senior Software Engineer
13 105 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
14 100 (4.89%) Principal Engineer
15 82 (4.01%) Software Developer
16 75 (3.67%) Lead Software Engineer
17 72 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
18 70 (3.42%) Lead Developer
19 58 (2.83%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 54 (2.64%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 549 (26.83%) .NET
2 436 (21.31%) React
3 420 (20.53%) Node.js
4 344 (16.81%) Spring
5 314 (15.35%) Spring Boot
6 297 (14.52%) RESTful
7 279 (13.64%) REST
8 254 (12.41%) Kafka
9 240 (11.73%) ASP.NET
10 220 (10.75%) .NET Core
11 219 (10.70%) AngularJS
12 212 (10.36%) Vue
13 195 (9.53%) ASP.NET Core
14 116 (5.67%) Blazor
15 105 (5.13%) ASP.NET Web API
16 98 (4.79%) .NET Framework
17 95 (4.64%) HTML
18 90 (4.40%) CSS
19 80 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
20 73 (3.57%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 629 (30.74%) Cloud Native
2 358 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
3 142 (6.94%) Product Ownership
4 106 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
5 100 (4.89%) Enterprise Software
6 71 (3.47%) Onboarding
7 52 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
8 44 (2.15%) AI Agents
9 43 (2.10%) Public Cloud
10 40 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
11 36 (1.76%) Over-the-Top Content
11 36 (1.76%) Virtual Team
12 33 (1.61%) e-Learning
12 33 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
13 26 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
14 24 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
15 23 (1.12%) Algorithms
15 23 (1.12%) Data Structures
15 23 (1.12%) Management Information System
16 19 (0.93%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 133 (6.50%) Linux
2 48 (2.35%) Windows
3 21 (1.03%) CentOS
3 21 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (1.03%) Unix
4 7 (0.34%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.24%) AIX
6 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.20%) Debian
6 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.15%) Android
8 2 (0.098%) VMS
9 1 (0.049%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,077 (52.64%) CI/CD
2 972 (47.51%) Agile
3 734 (35.87%) Software Engineering
4 724 (35.39%) DevOps
5 580 (28.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 497 (24.29%) Mentoring
7 439 (21.46%) Event-Driven
8 437 (21.36%) AI
9 431 (21.07%) Containerisation
10 414 (20.23%) Test Automation
11 409 (19.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 392 (19.16%) Infrastructure as Code
13 374 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
14 287 (14.03%) Scrum
15 281 (13.73%) Technical Leadership
16 275 (13.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 249 (12.17%) TDD
18 229 (11.19%) Clean Code
19 223 (10.90%) Architectural Patterns
20 215 (10.51%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 685 (33.48%) Java
2 567 (27.71%) C#
3 503 (24.58%) SQL
4 486 (23.75%) Python
5 461 (22.53%) JavaScript
6 372 (18.18%) TypeScript
7 114 (5.57%) Go
8 52 (2.54%) Ruby
9 46 (2.25%) Scala
10 45 (2.20%) C++
11 42 (2.05%) PHP
12 40 (1.96%) Bash
13 27 (1.32%) Bicep
14 26 (1.27%) PowerShell
15 23 (1.12%) Rust
16 20 (0.98%) C
17 19 (0.93%) Kotlin
17 19 (0.93%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.64%) Groovy
19 12 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 282 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 189 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 184 (8.99%) Degree
4 84 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (3.86%) DV Cleared
6 73 (3.57%) AWS Certification
7 45 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (1.32%) CISSP
9 25 (1.22%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (0.64%) CISM
13 10 (0.49%) DBS Check
13 10 (0.49%) PhD
14 9 (0.44%) MBA
15 5 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (10.07%) QA
2 84 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (1.81%) GDPR
5 34 (1.66%) WCAG
6 20 (0.98%) SOC 2
7 19 (0.93%) NIST
7 19 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.83%) NCSC
9 15 (0.73%) GRC
10 10 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.44%) Data Quality
11 9 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.24%) PSD2
15 5 (0.24%) SEPA
16 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 3 (0.15%) IFRS
System Software
1 588 (28.74%) Docker
2 32 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.24%) NDS
4 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.20%) Firmware
5 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.15%) KVM
7 1 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 623 (30.45%) Kubernetes
2 359 (17.55%) Terraform
3 112 (5.47%) Ansible
4 95 (4.64%) Grafana
5 56 (2.74%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.22%) Argo
7 19 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (0.88%) Puppet
9 17 (0.83%) Kibana
10 13 (0.64%) Cilium
11 8 (0.39%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.24%) Podman
14 4 (0.20%) Packer
15 2 (0.098%) Kubeflow
15 2 (0.098%) MIIS
15 2 (0.098%) Opsgenie
15 2 (0.098%) Rancher
16 1 (0.049%) Istio
16 1 (0.049%) Nagios
Vendors
1 324 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 89 (4.35%) Google
3 67 (3.27%) Oracle
4 37 (1.81%) OpenAI
5 36 (1.76%) Typelevel
6 35 (1.71%) Splunk
7 26 (1.27%) Dynatrace
8 23 (1.12%) AppDynamics
8 23 (1.12%) IBM
9 21 (1.03%) Databricks
10 19 (0.93%) Okta
11 18 (0.88%) ForgeRock
12 14 (0.68%) OneLogin
13 13 (0.64%) Adobe
13 13 (0.64%) SendGrid
14 12 (0.59%) Salesforce
14 12 (0.59%) SAP
15 11 (0.54%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.49%) Red Hat
17 8 (0.39%) OpenText